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♪ ♪ cluster bombs. as president biden heads overseas to shore up support for ukraine, he says the u.s. will send them a controversial weapon. >> it was a very difficult decision on my part. >> but is it the right one? >> i'll ask house foreign affairs committee michael mccall and the only house member who voted against the afghanistan war, democratic congresswoman barbara lee next. party of one. republicans set a date for the iowa caucuses where donald trump's rivals are trying to gain steam while he zeros in on his closest opponent. >> he's got no personality. >> does ron desantis have a plan to turn things around? >> he is the man to do it. my panel will discuss ahead. plus mercury rising, a record breaking heat wave blankets the globe. janet yellen pushes china on climate. >> we have the duty to cooperate. is any country doing enough to stop the climate threat? ♪

♪ hello. i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is wondering about long-term consequences just days after his controversial decision to send cluster bombs to ukraine as constituting a potential war crime, president biden is heading overseas this morning where he and the larger nato alliance will face a key task over whether they can remain united as they face down numerous, thorny, international challenges. tomorrow the president starts his trip in the uk meeting with prime minister rishi sunak, and then visiting with newly crowned king charles iii. then it's off to lithuania for what will undoubted lead be the key part to the president's trip. the refusal nato members, turkey and hungary to welcome sweden into the nato alliance and conflicting opinions on china's growing influence. the meeting will require

diplomatic deafness about the endgame in ukraine and just exactly how committed nato is to ukraine winning the war. all while dealing with president volodymyr zelenskyy's calls to admittedly admit ukraine into nato. zelenskyy told my colleague erin burnett that that decision was entirely up to president biden. biden told my colleague fareed zakaria that ukraine is not ready to join nato. joining us to discuss house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccaul of texas. thank you very much for being with us. one of the biggest subjects on the nato agenda, whether to fast track ukraine's push to nato. i want you to take a listen to what president zelenskyy told my colleague erin burnett this week. >> the u.s. decides today whether ukraine will get invited to nato. this is today's situation, and it's a fact. the majority of the nato countries support inviting ukraine to nato in the majority support? >> those who have their doubts

look only at president biden, and he knows that this depends on him. it will be his decision. >> do you think president biden should support an expedited process for ukraine to join nato? >> i think it should be incremental, jake. first, they have to win the counteroffensive and secondly have a cease-fire and then negotiate a peace settlement. we cannot admit ukraine into nato immediately. that would put us at war with russia under article 5 of the united nations. i think what the conversation will be about is what security agreements can be put in place with ukraine as a predicate to, perhaps, nato ascension of ukraine into nato, but it's way too premature to be talking about that, but i do think that just to talk about it does provide deterrence against russia, but we have to be careful in the way we do this. i think back in the budde apest

agreement they threw their weapons to russia and threw them under the bus and we have another security agreement with nato -- with ukraine, i'm sorry. it has to be one that's solid that all nato is behind as a security agreement. the issue of ascension in nato is a whole different issue. >> you refer to the nato charter and the article 5 an attack on one is an attack on all. >> after the war is over which presumably is a day that will come at some point which will then support admitting ukraine into nato. yes, but it would have to be done incrementally, i think a security agreement with ukraine to lay the predicate down the road, they would have to come under standards within nato qualifications, but i think, if anything, jake, they demonstrate the fight and the will for freedom and democracy, and they've earned it, but we have to put it on the right path for not an immediate ascension into

nato. >> let's talk about cluster bombs because you've been calling for the u.s. to give cluster bombs to ukraine for mo has agreed to do so. canada, meco, western europe, dozens of other countries, in fact, the majority of all countries around the globe have banned cluster bomb because they can call indiscriminate damage and kill civilians especially later. they banned cluster bombs from laos from the 1960s, do you have any reservation about giving cluster bombs to ukraine? >> you're right. the geneva convention, there are signatories to that convention who do not agree with these munitions. we are not a signatory to the geneva convention on cluster munitions and neither is ukraine, and by the way, russia is dropping with impunity cluster bombs in ukraine, in the country of ukraine right now. all of the ukrainians and zelenskyy are asking for is to

give them the same weapons the russians have to use in their own country against russians who are in their own country. they do not want these to be used in russia. they want these to use in self-defense against russia. i don't see anything wrong with that because quite honestly, jake, if you look at the counteroffensive, it's been slowed tremendously because this administration has been so slow to get the weapons in. these weapons would be a game changer. they are highly effective and particularly with the troops inside ukraine. they would be a game changer in the counteroffensive and i'm pleased the administration has finally agreed to do this, but lastly tacms, my committee, we voted to release those and longer range artillery. they can hit iranian drones in crimea and they have to get in as soon as possible to deliver

the storm shatters that the uk has put in there, as well, but it will take a while to train the pilots, but we've got to move all of this quickly and stop spending so much time. >> let's turn to china. treasury secretary janet yellen was just there trying to strike a balance between competition and cooperation with beijing. she tried to confront china on trade, on manufacturing on the climate crisis. were you satisfied with the biden administration's message on this trip? >> you know, i think just to get the meetings they made a lot of concessions on sanks and export controls. i would like this to be -- it is a great power competition. i think she was willing to say we're not in a conflict or in a competition. this is just -- we're just trading partners and it was devoid of reality. i think it's good to have diplomacy. i think it's good to have discussions moving forward, but what has china done? their response is export controls on rare earth minerals. as a result of this meeting they're going to cut exports of

rare minerals to the united states in what would be considered a trade action or a trade embargo, and this highlights the bigger great power competition we have with china. the first semiconductors that i took on with the chips act and now we have the rare earth minh minerals and globally china controls 80, 85%. we have to control africa, south america, indo-pacific and we're not doing adequately so far. >> let's turn to afghanistan because it was two fridays ago when the administration, the biden administration chose late friday afternoon before the long fourth of july weekend to release a damning afghanistan report that faulted both the biden administration and the trump administration for the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. i want you to take a listen to president biden's response to

that report. >> you admit there were mistakes during the withdrawal and before? >> remember what i said about afghanistan? i said al qaeda would not be there. i said it wouldn't be there. i said we'd get help from the taliban. what's happening now? what's going on? read your press. i was right. >> just in case -- and not everybody out there could hear, do you admit there were mistakes during the withdrawal before. president biden said no. no. all of the evidence is coming back. i said al qaeda wouldn't be there and taliban would be there and read the press. i was right. what's your reaction? >> it's devoid of reality, jake. it's a little eerie that a president of the united states would have so -- be so disillusioned about what's happening on the ground in afghanistan. the idea that al qaeda's gone, the secretary of defense and the

joint chiefs of staff milley has said al qaeda's on the rise. what happened after they withdrew? zawahiri was harbored by the haqqani network which is al qaeda essentially. you've got haqqani, the taliban, harboring zawahiri, al qaeda, and bin laden's number two guy in afghanistan right after the fall and now he's saying, you know, i was right. the taliban's helping us and al qaeda's gone. i just don't really understand it. it's a bit bizarre to me that a president would be so devoid of his own foreign policy, and he just really wants to sweep afghanistan under the rug. that report was very damaging and found that we should not have attended bagram where we have over $7 billion of taxpayer weapons left behind and now, by the way, the taliban are showing to our adversaries like iran and the palestinians against israel.

this is a huge foreign policy blunder. >> you're in miami right now. is anyone looking at the screen and sees the top right bug, and tuesday marks two years since protesters and cuba took to the treats in the largest anti-cuban government in a decade expect you're in florida to meet with cuban-american activists tomorrow. do you support regime change in cuba? do you think that's the only path forward? >> well, i think we have to be careful in south america about regime change. we've had a history of that. i support the people of cuba. i support them. if they want an uprising we should support them in that effort. tomorrow they're very passionate about their country. they want their country back and they want freedom and democracy in cuba and what is happening in cuba right now? china is in cuba. we have the latest reports now that the chinese are setting up a spy station in cuba, the likes of which we haven't seen since

the cuban missile crisis and where am i sitting? south com in miami, centcom, that's all of the middle east. southcom is central and south america or military. our intelligence task force in key west. all of these facilities, jake, 90 miles away from that tiny island from where i sit right here in miami. 90 miles it can intercept through what way and cte in a spy station until our intelligence communications and that is a clear and present danger and a threat to the security of the united states just 90 miles off the coast here. >> the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, michael in caul, republican. thanks for joining me. >> now she is warning president biden he's about to make a mistake in ukraine. congresswoman barbara lee join

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my next guest was the only member of the house of representatives after 9/11 to vote against the war in afghanistan. that was more than two decades ago and now she's strongly breaking with the biden administration over its decision to send controversial cluster bombs to ukraine. she's warning the u.s. shouldn't stoop to putin's level. joining me now is barbara lee of california where she is also running for the u.s. senate. congresswoman, thank so much for joining us. here's how the white house is trying to justify giving ukraine cluster munitions despite the risk that they pose to civilians. take a listen. >> there is also a massive rick risk of civilian harms if russian take tanks take more ukrainian territory and subjugate more ukrainian civilians. this is intolerable to us. this is their country they're defending and these are their citizens they're protecting and they are motivated to use aniy

weapons system they have. >> what do you think? do you buy that argument? what's your response? >> nice being with you, jake. no. cluster bomb should never be used. that's crossing a line. once you have seen what takes place and we know what takes place in terms of cluster bombs in terms of being dangerous to civilians and they don't always immediately explode. children can step on them. that's a line we should not cross. i think the president's been doing a good job managing this war, this putin aggressive war against ukraine, but i think that this should not happen. he has to ask for a waiver under the foreign assistance act just to do it because we have been preventing the use of cluster bombs since, i believe, 2010. >> so, when putin started using cluster bombs, the biden white house said that that would potentially be a war crime. do you think that, therefore,

the u.s. government, the biden administration would potentially be engaging in war crimes if this goes forward? >> what i think is that we are -- would risk losing our moral leadership because when you look at the fact that over 120 countries have signed the convention on cluft are munitions saying they should never be used, they should never be used and in fact, many of us have urged the administration to sign on to this convention. so i'm hoping that the administration would reconsider this because these are very dangerous bombs, they're dangerous weapons and this is a line that i don't believe we should cross. >> you notably, were the only member of the u.s. house of representatives to vote against uth rising the war in afghanistan in 2001. now, of course, a state department report on the chaotic afghan wig drawl effort found that the biden administration

failed to prepare for the worst-case scenario and many of them would last, do you think president biden deserves some blame for the way that that withdrawal spiralled out of control? >> i don't believe the administration deserves any blame for this. we have to remember that donald trump made this agreement with the taliban. secondly, the trump administration literally gutted our state department, and i believe that the state department and those who were involved in this end of the afghanistan war which should have happened before them, i believe, did the best they could, but having said that, it wasn't as smooth as we would have liked to have seen it and we'll have to find our state department ask diplomats just like we're funding the defense department. i believe that had we stayed in afghanistan we'd be there another 20 years. there was no military solution.

that's why i voted against that overly broad authorization in 2001 which was a 60-word authorization that set the stage for forever wars. >> let's turn to the climate crisis because thursday the earth had its warmest average temperature on record since scientists began keeping records of this kind of thing. this was the fourth day in a road of record breaking global temperatures. these numbers show that climate change is out of control, end quote. as someone who understands the climate crisis, are there steps that president biden could be doing right now to combat the climate crisis that he is not taking? >> this is a climate emergency. we see wildfires. we see floods, the hottest days ever in history, recently and this administration has done phenomenally well in terms of investments and releasing our

business investments and private sector investments to begin to rely on more clean energy economy and making sure that we get away from using fossil fuels and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and also making sure that our water and air is being clean by the inflation reduction act and the c.h.i.p.s act. we have done everything, the biden administration has done everything it can given the political dynamics in the house and the senate, but we have to do a heck of a lot more. we have to reduce environmental justice and injustice in communities of color and low income and communities of color. i'm working with congressman raul on an environmental justice bill, but i believe that this administration knows that there are injustices in our own country and have made

investments into communities of color to deal with the pollution that we have to deal with every day and the impacts are horrendous and we need to do more, but i think administration has done a very good job in making investments in our climate emergency. >> you are out on the campaign trail running for the u.s. senate. president biden is traveling country extolling his economic policies. he's calling them bidenomics. polls consistently show that the majority of the american people disa ruf of the economy. they're hurting from inflation, the high cost of living and income inequality and more. >> why aren't so many voters feeling the benefits? >> the cost of living, of course, in california, it is extremely high. the affordablity crisis is high. we have record job growth and wages have not kept up with the

cost of living and what i'm talking about with voterses and with people throughout the state, first of all, in the golden state of california, we have at least 20 million people who are living one paycheck away from poverty, and so we've got to make sure that we reduce the cost of housing. we have a huge unsheltered population. we have to make sure that we provide for child care for women especially who want to get back into the workforce and we have to make sure we fight for a living wage for everyone in california because people cannot afford to continue to live here because the cost of living are so high, and so the president, i believe, has done a remarkable job on moving this economy and creating good paying union jobs, but we have a lit heck of a lot more where the cost of living is extremely high, and it's not gone up to live in such a

wonderful state like california. >> you know running to succeed diane fine stan during her months'-long absence and questions about her health and congressman ro khanna has called on campaign to resoin. does he speak for you? do you think she also needs to step down. >> i have said over and over ask over again that i first of all, am more concerned about senator feinstein's health. she's back at work and doing her job. i am running for the united states senate. wooe b we're building our organization and we were in the central valley last week in los angeles and san diego, and let me tell you, we've been listening -- i've been listening to the challenges that people here in california have of inequality, cost of living, the cost of

housing. that's what's important to me that people understand that i see them, i hear them, and i'm going to fight for them so that they can have the type of life that californians all deserve and that is making sure that they're able to live the california and american dream. that's what i'm doing, listening and explaining to people why i am running and making sure they understand that my experiences, my abilities to negotiate, appropriate and legislate which have been proven will be very useful for californians when i'm elected into the senate, and so i'm excited about this campaign that i'm running in. >> right, but does ro khanna who is your campaign co-chair, does he speak for you? >> look, first of all, i respect my congressman, my friend, ro khanna, and i'm speaking for myself when i say that i hope that senator feinstein continues to improve. she is back in washington, d.c.,

and she is doing her job and what i'm doing is talking to voters and putting forth my record and my experience, my lived experiences in connecting with people so that people understand that i'm going to be fighting continuously for them for a better life for everyone. >> thank you so much for joining us early in the morning there in california. we appreciate it, congresswoman. >> thank you. >> a top desantis supporter is admitting that donald trump is the runaway front-runner for the republican nomination. can a new strategy by the desantis team boost his campaign? my panel is next. hey, stop, stop, stop. found it. can i get a ruling? don't beg. it's unbecoming. ( sfx: thud ) was that good? i couldn't tell. there's no such thing as out of bounds. find adventure at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. ( ♪ )

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he became ron desanctimonious to me, and he would be a total disaster. first of all, he's got no personality. you probably found that out b because his polls are crashing. >> i will go out and fight for ron desantis, not because he is my husband. that is a part of it, but i believe in him in every ounce of

my being. >> welcome back to "state of the union," donald trump and ron desantis' wife casey, the caucuses have a date . doug, you were communications for the 2012 iowa caucus. donald trump lost it last time, narrowly, but he lost it to ted cruz. how do you think things are shaping up? >> with iowa, if donald trump wins this time the field is over. so all things will come down to iowa in this case. if ron desantis wins and mike pence is able to 99 conte his way into a victory and then we have a wide open race, but if donald trump wins iowa in january and it's six months and one week to go and it's a long time this race is effectively over. one of the things you're getting at there is the fact that the republican electorate is made up of evangelical, conservative

christians and donald trump had not quite sealed the deal with them in 2016. how do you think things are going to shape up. >> well, i think doug is right, if donald trump wins iowa, it's over. the question i have is how many people can stay in the race against iowa. you have to fund raise to keep organizers on the ground to run political ads and right now it doesn't mean that nikki haley and tim scott will last another six months. if mike pence and ron desantis can come close they might hang on until new hampshire, but at this point if they don't close the field pretty soon it will be donald trump. >> you saw the desantis campaign this week, what do you think and how do you think he's doing? >> he plays well in iowa and i saw him in new hampshire and not a place where he's quite as popular and to ashley's point, he goes into the race focusing on iowa and he has the money and the momentum i think to be in for the long haul and there has been misstep after misstep by

his campaign and rather than trying to differentiate himself from trump and his best point is l electability and he put out one of the most arguably homophobic ads i've ever seen. any coalition you need to win back the general election, so i think that he's in the race for the long haul, but i don't know that i see momentum picking up in terms of his polling. >> i don't know about that. i've said this until i was blue in the face, but the more voters meet ron desantis the less they like him which why i think his wife going on the campaign trail is added. >> i do believe the race is after january 5th is over and it is king day, but whatever, and for the life of me, i cannot believe that no one has actually challenged donald trump significantly on issues that truly matter, and i don't think there is a lot of time left. >> like what?

like what issues? when you attack donald trump you have to attack him substantively. you have to talk about january 6th and character issues and chris christie's done very well. >> asa hutchinson, too and will hurd, too. >> who? >> like time scott and ron desantis, if you will have credibility on the platform you have to hit him, to your point on issues that matter. you cannot outtrump donald trump. >> the word platform here is important, and when i say you have a long time to go, we have a debate in six weeks and we have to see if donald trump shows up or not and a lot of this is conjecture runnion line and through ads and they have to stand next to each other and in nomination doesn't go around donald trump. it goes through him. luke skywalker had to confront darth vader and these republicans -- >> i've talked to a number of republican candidates and they did all get the same advice early on and don't go after him

too much and go after the policies and the problem with that is they missed the opportunity to differentiate themselves and define themselves. nikki haily and there's not a way to break through because she wasted so much time going after donald trump. >> the former vice president mike pence is also iowa. and he was asked bay a voter about january 6th, by the way. we're expecting the justice department to move on possible indictments on the january 6th insurrection, but listen to what iowa vote her to listen to mike pence and his response. >> if it wasn't for your vote, we would not have joe biden in the white house. >> i did exactly what the constitution of the united states required of me that day. i kept my oath. i'm sorry, ma'am, but that's what the constitution says. no vice president has ever asserted the author that you have been convinced that i had.

preside president trump was wrong about my authority that day and he's still wrong. >> she disregarded 70 million other people's votes based on mike pence's one vote and that's because donald trump and many people in the republican party, to be honest, have done a really good job in lying to the american people about the authority. i also think after january 6th, terrible day, people put mike pence on the pedestal for doing his job and it made people think if you're drinking the donald trump kool-aid that he had more power than he did. as mike pence said every other vice president has done this, why would i be the exception to the rule. it's put a stop to the people in the republican field. >> i get that it's an extremely low bar. >> yes. >> that answer had moral clarity. it was extremely clear. he said, look, i'm going to lose this one woman's vote for this

decently ignorant question, but i'm going to lead. i don't know if this is mike pence's time and i disagree with mike pence on 99.1% on the policy point and that's the way you run for president of the united states. >> what do you think if there are indictments of donald trump and others around him for january 6th for trying to overturn a free and fair election. do you think that will have any impact on the voters? >> it will be the third indictment on the form are president and his numbers have gone up prior and it will depend r largely on how this matters. for someone like a nikki haley, but i don't know that that's what we're going to see. i would cling to that and explain to the public about why he did was so unprecedented. >> earn,veryone, stick around. president joe biden has joked that he's as old as the united states itself. will that help diffuse voters' concerns about his age and

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♪ ♪ i'm a little under 103. >> i know i'm 198 years old. >> when i was graduating from high school 300 years ago. >> i look back on my career of 280 years. >> i know i look like i'm still 29. >> i believe in the first amendment not just because my good friend jimmy madison wrote it. >> president joe biden trying to laugh off concerns about his advanced age headed into 2024. my panel is back with me. effective? what do you think? >> there are, if you look at polls, people, including democrats, are concerned about his age and the ability to do the job because of his age. yes. it is a very real concern and democrats share that concern and he's our horse and we have to ride him. so that's first.

the second thing is there is an advantage republicans have when it comes to this 2024 election in term was this new generation of leadership versus the traditional same old, same old washington and after donald trump wins iowa, that advantage is also disappearing. >> but on that, don't democrats think that donald trump is an existential threat to american democracy? i personally think so. >> yes. >> why are you guys staking that on the back of an 80-year-old man who everyone has concerns. >> i've had this conversation many times. so what's the alternative? >> exactly. >> you guys can have a nominating process, and it would seem that if you were so worried about the future with donald trump as president again, you guys would put up -- >> i'm engaging in the primary. >> that's the only detraction. we can get into a policy discussion, but you have somebody who has actually implemented tangible and in many times bipartisan partisan positions and i'm not going to

retire the horse simply because he's run a few races. >> i'm beating this horse to death. >> in addition to the fact, like let's be honest, every president has a healthy ego, but beyond that, he probably thinks that i think he thinks he's the only one that can beat donald trump that he would step back today if he thought vice president harris or secretary buttigieg, or whoever would do it, but he thinks that he can't. >> joe biden has had a pretty successful term in office. he got infrastructure done and he got bipartisan reform done and the pandemic with getting vaccines in people's arms. he is doing the right thing on russia and ukraine and not potentially letting a dictator take over. when you have a record like that you run again for re-election like every other president has and the only reason he thinks he can beat donald trump is because he did beat donald trump already. it's not democrats' responsibility to put somebody else on the ticket. it's republican voters that yes,

donald trump is an existential threat to our democracy so don't nominate him and let the race play out and it's not fair. i agree with baccari, his age is an issue, and donald trump is no spring chicken either. >> my favorite group of voters there are the double haters. they don't liked bien and they don't like trump and they're my favorite because they're so important. the double haters in 2016 went for trump over hillary. >> yes. >> the double haters overwhelmingly for biden. they don't like either one, but i'm going to go with the old horse. >> that's why we've seen states like georgia and arizona flip. >> use the horse race analogy further -- >> we're beating this horse to death. >> this nomination process -- very well done. is the belmont stakes. it's a very long race and you come at a time where joe biden is at an age where you age

faster and in a job when you age faster than any other job and in your last book, i look forward to reading the new one, biden reminds me of reading frank sinatra toward the end of his career. the next minute he can't remember the words to "come fly with me," we've seen it at a debate or the speech and joe biden and the democrats have an existential problem. >> think people are waiting for that to happen. we all are on television and sometimes read the wrong line and say the wrong thing. it's what humans do, and we're not robots or chatgpt. >> everyone is putting too much, i trip once a week as well and we don't want to see it to our leaders happen, but i also think that he is on. >> biden is handicapped a little bit because for the last two presidents we've had superstars. whether you buy a ticket to

their show or not. barack obama was a once in a life time generational leader that you just loved, right? either you hated him or you loved him. donald trump is the same thing that's why 50% of your party still wants him. joe biden is not a celebrity. >> they set the bar extremely low, and i think republicans make that mistake often. they're, like, he's so old that he can't put a sentence together and then when he sits down with someone like fareed zakaria and sounds coherent, people say oh, my god. >> you have an unpopular vice president who is polling beneath the top of the ticket of joe biden. usually it's do no harm and, and that could be a drag on someone like me who is a neither sider. >> first, i have to address the first part. she's also the first vice president of the united states that doesn't look like any of the other ones that came before her, and so the -- >> the first woman, first person

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